Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
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climate model intercomparison framework
climate modeling project
international scientific collaboration
The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is an international collaborative framework that coordinates and standardizes climate model experiments to improve understanding of past, present, and future climate change.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Coupled Model Intercomparison Project canonical | 1 |
| Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5567207 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Context triple: [Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, participatesIn, Coupled Model Intercomparison Project]
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A.
World Climate Research Programme
The World Climate Research Programme is an international scientific initiative that coordinates and advances global climate research to improve understanding and prediction of the Earth’s climate system.
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B.
Manabe–Wetherald climate model
The Manabe–Wetherald climate model is a pioneering one-dimensional radiative–convective model that first quantified how increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide affects Earth’s temperature and vertical temperature profile.
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C.
Representative Concentration Pathways
Representative Concentration Pathways are standardized greenhouse gas concentration trajectories used in climate modeling to project future climate change under different emissions scenarios.
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D.
Earth System Model Development
Earth System Model Development is a research program focused on advancing comprehensive computer models that simulate the coupled atmosphere, ocean, land, ice, and biogeochemical processes of the Earth’s climate system.
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E.
World Climate Programme
The World Climate Programme is an international initiative that coordinates global efforts to understand, monitor, and address climate variability and change, particularly in support of climate services and policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Target entity description: The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is an international collaborative framework that coordinates and standardizes climate model experiments to improve understanding of past, present, and future climate change.
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A.
World Climate Research Programme
The World Climate Research Programme is an international scientific initiative that coordinates and advances global climate research to improve understanding and prediction of the Earth’s climate system.
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B.
Manabe–Wetherald climate model
The Manabe–Wetherald climate model is a pioneering one-dimensional radiative–convective model that first quantified how increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide affects Earth’s temperature and vertical temperature profile.
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C.
Representative Concentration Pathways
Representative Concentration Pathways are standardized greenhouse gas concentration trajectories used in climate modeling to project future climate change under different emissions scenarios.
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D.
Earth System Model Development
Earth System Model Development is a research program focused on advancing comprehensive computer models that simulate the coupled atmosphere, ocean, land, ice, and biogeochemical processes of the Earth’s climate system.
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E.
World Climate Programme
The World Climate Programme is an international initiative that coordinates global efforts to understand, monitor, and address climate variability and change, particularly in support of climate services and policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
climate model intercomparison framework
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climate modeling project ⓘ international scientific collaboration ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CMIP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| application |
policy-relevant climate information
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risk assessment of climate change ⓘ |
| coordinator | World Climate Research Programme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dataRepository | Earth System Grid Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field |
climate modeling
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climate science ⓘ climatology ⓘ |
| focus |
Earth system models
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coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models ⓘ |
| geographicScope | global ⓘ |
| hasPhase |
CMIP1
NERFINISHED
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CMIP2 NERFINISHED ⓘ CMIP3 NERFINISHED ⓘ CMIP5 NERFINISHED ⓘ CMIP6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involves |
climate modeling centers worldwide
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national meteorological services ⓘ research institutions ⓘ |
| outputType | multi-model climate datasets ⓘ |
| purpose |
to coordinate climate model experiments
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to improve understanding of future climate change ⓘ to improve understanding of past climate change ⓘ to improve understanding of present climate change ⓘ to provide standardized climate model output for research ⓘ to standardize climate model simulations ⓘ to support climate change projections ⓘ to support climate model evaluation ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Representative Concentration Pathways
NERFINISHED
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Shared Socioeconomic Pathways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedProject | Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sponsor | World Climate Research Programme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardizes |
data formats for climate model output
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experimental design of climate model simulations ⓘ forcing scenarios used in climate models ⓘ output variables from climate models ⓘ |
| startDate | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| supports |
attribution studies of climate change
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development of climate change scenarios ⓘ evaluation of climate sensitivity ⓘ regional climate impact assessments ⓘ |
| usedBy | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
IPCC assessment reports
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climate model intercomparison studies ⓘ evaluation of climate model performance ⓘ multi-model climate projections ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Description of subject: The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is an international collaborative framework that coordinates and standardizes climate model experiments to improve understanding of past, present, and future climate change.
Referenced by (2)
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this entity surface form:
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5